Sorry in advance for the long post...
My wedding was supposed to be rel="nofollow" June 27, 2020 in Philadelphia, PA. We sent our invitations to our 120 guests On March 25th. A little early, but this was our plan prior to COVID-19 as we wanted to make sure everyone would have time to arrange for travel, hotel etc. since we have a lot of out of town guests (us included). At this time the safer at home orders were starting and there was a lot of uncertainty on what the next few months would look like. It was especially hard trying to keep up with Los Angeles guidelines (where my fiancé and I live) as well as the guidance from officials in Philly.
In the meantime, we remained hopeful this would all be over before the big day 😅 It was too early to call It off so we sent our invitations as planned and added a note saying we were monitoring the situation and are planning on moving forward as long as it was still safe to do so. Our guests started submitting their RSVPs through our wedding website but by the end of April we knew that we couldn’t safely move forward with our original plans due to the Coronavirus.
On May 1st we emailed/called our guests and updated our wedding website to let everyone know that we were postponing. Luckily our vendors were amazing and worked with us quickly over the last week to find a new date of July 10, 2021.
So now we are trying to figure out the best way to officially tell our guests. I want them to know our new date ASAP but at the same time I don’t want to send out anything too premature. We will also need to have our guests re-RSVP through our wedding website at some point next year since now we are over a year out. I was thinking that we could send the “change the date“ out within the next month or so and then send a digital reminder to re-rsvp on our website next spring. Since all the details except the date are exactly the same, I really don’t want to waste paper or money on reprinting new invites, especially since we have a detailed wedding website and were already doing digital RSVP anyway. In hindsight I wish we would have just waited to send out our invitations 🙃
So now my questions for you all:
When should we send out the officially “change the date?”
Do we do a digital change the date or mail printed cards?
Is it okay to skip new invitations and send a digital RSVP reminder next spring?
I know I’m probably overthinking all of these details but I appreciate your help and advice!
